I currently have 10 APs on the transfer page. The Retry button is moaning.

I use cron entries with bash scripts calling awk scripts in Cygwin [or Windows Task Scheduler if I don't have cygwin installed] or Linux to accomplish the same thing (and tickle reporting if uploads are ready). I've posted them before but I can do it again if anyone wants.
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Yeah, I've never had these issues with downloading before. I've been reading about them for years now, but I have never personally experienced it. It really is painful. I waited about 90 minutes (elapsed download time was 54 minutes) for this one AP and discovered that after two downloads timed out 2-3 times, I was in project backoff of like 4 hours. Oh, and then it was a 100% blanked B3_P1, so less than a second of CPU time and it was done.

ONLY 54 minute - I haven't had an AP go through that fast for a few days, they are typically taking 90-150 minutes (excluding the time wasting, band width saturating, server clogging so called "retries" and "back-offs" - all these accomplish is to waste resources and frustrate users - and more than double the REAL download times, to more like 180-300 minutes).
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Bob Smith
Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society)
Somewhere in the (un)known Universe?

That wasn't much fun. Boinc thought I had enough work prior to the Tues blackout, except most the AP were hanging and the pile of 6.10s took 5 minutes each. What looked like a > 24 hour cache burned up really quick!

Still downloading slow, but it works out better now that the project is up for retrying.

I've noticed the prolonged downloads too, but noticed today that it's improved significantly. It's been a few months since I payed much attention to what the clients are doing, so not sure how unusual the slower DL's on my end has been.
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I've noticed the prolonged downloads too, but noticed today that it's improved significantly. It's been a few months since I payed much attention to what the clients are doing, so not sure how unusual the slower DL's on my end has been.

Unfortunatly true, crunching is done faster then down- and uploading them .
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I am also getting VERY VERY slow download speed for wu's and anything else SETI sends. I am beginning to think SETI uses a 56K dialup for sending data since I have never received a wu faster than 5kps. Well back to watching a 5M wu come down. It's at 75% and it's only been 30 mins. :(
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